"I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new"
Ernst Haas
" We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect...
but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs "
Aaron Siskind
" Seeing is not enough, you have to feel what you photograph. "
Andre Kertesz
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be
coherent about intuition and hope.
Robert Adams
Sharpness is overrated.
Keith Carter
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
Minor White
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
Ansel Adams
Photography is a language more universal than words.
Minor White
When I make a photograph, I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained,
whose basic condition is order.
Aaron Siskind
A technically perfect photograph can be the world’s most boring picture.
Andreas Feininger
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.
Ernst Haas
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
Andreas Feininger
We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds,
and the camera is nothing more than a tool.
Arnold Newman
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!
John Sexton
The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
Harry Callahan